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by woobilicious 1881 days ago
Minecraft wasn't marketed as having "every genre", while showing exactly none in their demo videos.

When you design a game you come up with a core game play loop, Minecraft had this, and notch was competent and humble enough to make his game from scratch, and release a MVP people could play.

This game doesn't have a core game play loop so it hides behind nothing burger statements like this.

Whenever someone makes claims that are both grandiose and vague you should take it with a grain of salt.

But do you know what it does have? it doesn't describe in ambiguities? kickstarter rewards, you get pets, and you get to put your name on a billboard, and the more you donate the bigger your name.

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I'm not saying they're right, but given we know games can lose the core game play loop and succeed, maybe starting without it isn't a terrible idea. Secondlife is still around without one. Roblox doesn't really have one. Kids can spend hours in Scratch creating their own.